Whether you are running a big organization with hundreds of employees, or a small company with just tens, employee performance is a critical component for the survival of your business. Although the methodology, approach, and complexity may differ from a company to another based on the internal culture, industry, size or other factors, the core of a successfully implemented performance management remains the same; technology.
Strategy teams and performance specialists are usually responsible for communicating performance measures to employees and making sure they are reporting their actual achievements on time, in order to generate accurate performance reports.
This part is the third and last of the post series: Why Should Employee Measures Not Be Evaluated Equally. Please follow below links to read the first two parts:
In my previous post [Link to Post], we talked about the importance of differentiating employees’ performance measures based on their importance, to produce more accurate scoring within your performance management system.
In a previous post on the 3 Myths About Performance Management, we discussed the Symmetry Myth, where performance specialists tend to measure everything equally because they see every single measure to be very important. Therefore, they evaluate all steps with the same effect on the employee’s performance score. In other words, all performance measures are given equal weights.
Setting up your performance management system is a complex process that requires a huge amount of time and effort, and the involvement of multiple functions to ensure that your system is comprehensive and covers all required aspects of performance, including financial, people and processes.
Throughout our work with several organizations to help automating their strategy execution and performance management processes, we’ve encountered some common obstacles, which stood as rock-hard barriers, delaying, and sometimes preventing the start or progress of the execution process.
Your employees are your most valuable assets. You want to keep them motivated, passionate about their jobs and productive enough to help you achieve your organization’s goals. The direct way to accomplish this is by ensuring an effective performance management process is in place.
If you are a manager, then you’ve had at least one difficult and uncomfortable conversation with an employee regarding their performance. Usually, the conflict arises because of the different perspectives you and your employee may have, concerning what an acceptable performance is.